 Thanks for joining us for today's public good app house demo event. I'm Bailey Maples and I'm a senior program manager with the strategic partnerships team here at TechSoup. So joining me today we have James McBrien, founder and CEO of Trackit Forward. James is the founder and CEO of Trackit Forward, a volunteer time tracking system to help grassroots and nonprofit organizations. Trackit Forward started as an idea to recognize and reward volunteers while James was a volunteer himself at Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden. And since then, thousands of schools and nonprofits have used Trackit Forward to track time in order to meet grant requirements and force membership levels and retain volunteers through recognition programs. To date, Trackit Forward has recorded over 25 million volunteer hours. So yeah, I'm James. I'm the CEO and founder of Trackit Forward. Yeah, Trackit Forward started when I was a volunteer coordinator at the Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland, California. I've actually been a volunteer coordinator at 10 different organizations over the past decade and Trackit Forward is kind of the brainchild that came from that. If any of you manage volunteers, it probably all looks familiar, where you have to like find the volunteers, you need to onboard volunteers, you need to get the volunteers to sign up for shifts and activities. And if you get all the way there, having them actually track the volunteer hours and then repeating that over and over and over again. I don't know about you, but that's really exhausting. And that's why we built Trackit Forward. So Trackit Forward, the way that we approached it is that we wanted to make it completely customizable to every nonprofit's special configuration. Every nonprofit is different. I wish there was a turnkey, something for every nonprofit, but the truth is we all have our different workflows and kind of being at 10 different organizations. I kind of saw those different workflows and needed something that was flexible and adjustable. And that's why Trackit Forward by default has over 100 different settings to make it super flexible and super robust. So volunteer coordinators can actually collect that data, track the hours, get those hours verified and create the reports that are important to help run the business or run the nonprofit and continue growing it as well. So one of the organizations that use Trackit Forward that really stands out to me is Glean Kentucky. Glean Kentucky is an organization filling the gap in food distribution and collection and scarcity in Kentucky. They basically get volunteers. They pick up excess produce from grocery stores, orchards and farmers markets, and they use Trackit Forward's event system and logging system to coordinate all of the different shifts. So all that food in a timely manner can get distributed to the different soup kitchens, food banks, and community organizations out there. And so the idea is Trackit Forward is used as minimally as possible so all this busy activity can happen. So the key features that Glean Kentucky uses on Trackit Forward is our event calendar. It's kind of like your different sign up forms to get people to sign up to do things, to RSVP to say that they want to come. So that's like step one in this process. And step two is, and this was really important for Glean Kentucky and all the nonprofits that use Trackit Forward is our deeply customizable field. It's kind of like Google Forms, but like way deeper, way richer, way more flexible and robust that tie directly into reports. And when doing all this as well, what's really important is that it's super easy to use. Volunteers won't use things if it's frustrating. So that's one of our key things at Trackit Forward is to kind of keep the balance between functionality, robustness, and simplicity all at the same time. So this is a quote from the Glean Kentucky Field Coordinator, Jimmy Early. Trackit Forward takes a lot of work off my shoulders. In short, it allows me to actually spend time on my job in a lot less time in front of the computer. That's awesome. That was the goal of Trackit Forward. And I'm glad we were able to achieve that for him. When I was a volunteer coordinator myself, I just felt like I was spending so much time just in a computer, on the phones, cat wrangling all the time. And it couldn't really do the thing I was really passionate about, which was kind of getting on the field and helping the volunteers directly. So this is kind of what Trackit Forward's all about is being a simple operational tool to be used as little as possible so everyone can get out and build more capacity in their organization. So here's just an example of what the calendar system looks like on Trackit Forward. Again, it's super simple, super intuitive. What you have here is the different events that Glean Kentucky has in order to coordinate their volunteers. There's categories. There's shifts, availabilities. So people can see instantly what's available and what's not available. And then here's an example of kind of the deeper forms that we have. So these forms right here are kind of like, as I said, Google Forms, you can pick between all the different fields. And then when you pick between different things as well, we have conditional fields as well. So things can show up or not show up based off of what you select. So there's a lot of what we call logic in our forms as well. And that's what Glean Kentucky uses heavily to kind of organize all of these different regions all at the same time with one application and one form. So wrapping up really fast, Trackit Forward is all about customizability for your organization. That's the key thing that when I was a volunteer coordinator really needed between all my organizations and we have thousands of organizations using Trackit Forward and just customizability is really important, but simplicity is also important. Those come hand in hand on Trackit Forward. If you want to get more involved with Trackit Forward or hear more about us, we have a Facebook group. We're bringing volunteer coordinators all together where they're just asking questions all of the time. It's just the volunteer coordinator resource community on Trackit or on Facebook. We have 2,100 members. I think one of my colleagues will post a link in the chat. And lastly, if you're a volunteer coordinator and you're like, well, James, I don't know what to do. Should I do anything? Is this a good fit for me? Just go to trackitforward.com. We have one of our coordinators can give you a call and just talk to you for free. You don't need to come on to Trackit Forward or anything. We talk with hundreds of organizations all the time just giving them the best advice and we can let you know if this is a good fit for you or not or when it would be a good fit. So thank you so much for having me and I appreciate it, guys.